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Research Interests: Isaias is working on a comparative examination of the experience of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC) in late twentieth century Latin America and considering critically their contribution to the transformation of the region’s political order in the aftermath of protracted processes of political violence. In particular, he is interested in analyzing the points of disjuncture between popular notions of truth, justice, and reconciliation, and the ways in which these concepts have been deployed and realized by transitional and successor regimes. His current focus is on the experience of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its reception among Quechua communities of Ayacucho, Peru, who have suffered the bulk of political violence that devastated the Peruvian countryside during most of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Isaias is also working among the Quechua coca growers of the Valle del Rio Apurimac in the Andean Amazonian region of Peru, in looking at the articulations of violence, rights and morality in the production and circulation of the State. |
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